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  1. Re:Fun experiment on Optical Mouse Used As Cheap Motion Sensor · · Score: 1

    you probably just rotated it

  2. Re:Umm, on Build Your Own Arcade Kit · · Score: 1

    Sure, if you pay 60 bucks.

  3. Re:The Diamond Age on Envisioning the Desktop Fabricator · · Score: 2, Informative

    People interested in fabricators, might want to read this and this.

    It's an alternative to the quantum/string/etc. theory, much more easy to grasp and seems a lot more likely to be true.

    If so, we might eventually be able to shape any sub-atomic structure from radiation and vice-versa.

  4. Re:Bleh.. on Wireless Mouse with no Batteries · · Score: 1

    why not track the movement of the hand without a mouse at all? it's got a lot of specific radiation which could be easily and accurately located (I think..)

  5. Re:Great... on Westerners Migrating to India for Jobs · · Score: 1

    Yes, here in Europe, we're all stoned all the time, just like your countries' propaganda machine told you

  6. Re:Whoa there. on Intel Helping Asia to Use Linux · · Score: 1

    American patents don't have any meaning in the rest of the world anyway...

  7. Re:Smellovision on BrainPort Allows People To Reclaim Damaged Senses · · Score: 1

    Pr0n will pick this up someday

    And we'll be able to taste Alyx in Half-life 3!

  8. Re:attractive to middle management- otherwise suck on Software Tools of the Future · · Score: 1

    It's a matter of time, but programming will eventually be easy enough to be done by the users themselves.

    The programmer job of today is comparable to that of a typewriter in the early days. Those who don't embrace alternatives are just being naive.

  9. Re:Multi-media apps? on DoCoMo to Use Linux on Phones · · Score: 1

    Is Joe Schmoe working for a telco?? I think not!

    At most, he'll need to check when the burgers have to be flipped.

  10. Re:Excellent idea on U.S. Congress Poised To Vote On Internet Tax Ban · · Score: 1

    Well, he is a taxpayer so his decision should count for 1/300 millionth:1 in this democracy.

    Oh, wait, we're talking about America..

  11. Re:Refuseniks Unite! on Supermarket Loyalty Cards Vs National ID Cards · · Score: 1

    We should be glad that we can just not accept the card, imagine they would use the cameras already there to recognise your face and use your every move in the shop for datamining; hell, they could even use the "look underneath someones clothes" trick.

    Or what if you'd need your iris scanned just to get into the shop..

    Too bad we have governments that would rather help to break than to protect privacy (even in Europe).

  12. sun's business plan on Solaris 10 Released, Updated & Free (Like Speech) · · Score: 1

    1. spend 500 million (on what actually?) 2. make a free OS, so billions of people will use it! (we're brilliant!!) 3. ??? 4. free beer subscription!

  13. Re:Three words... on Electronic Arts Facing Possible Class Action Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    in this world where everybody is out for themselves, you've probably screwed.

    Pardon me? They're not rabbits!

  14. not important? on United Linux: Two Years Later · · Score: 1

    if it would have been suitable for the mainstream game industry, the amount of linux users just might pop up a few hundred %

    Which is also quite interesting for non-gaming linux hotshots

  15. reminds me, on How Computers Work... in 1971 · · Score: 1

    "One terabyte should be enough for everyone" they used to say in those early days!

    Just imagine what kind of nitwits they were, haha!

  16. Re:Mario may be more dangerous than you think.... on Australian Counter Strike Shooters · · Score: 1

    They DO have 9 lives, don't they??

  17. Re:'Dressed' as Counterstrike shooters on Australian Counter Strike Shooters · · Score: 2, Funny

    So this means they were wearing either army fatigues or a shirt with glasses

    OR they were dressed up like those little brain eating jumpy thingies. In that case, I would indeed blame the game.

  18. Sun has this info for free... on Decompiling Java · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sun has put the Java bytecode specification online for free..

    Reverse engineering in Java is as simple as the compile process itself. Besides there are already free tools available so why bother??

  19. Re:Uhm.... on The Art of Cable Folding · · Score: 1

    No, they mean the Rembrandt decorated power cables.

  20. Re:Why? on Monitoring the U.S. Elections Online? · · Score: 1

    Life will go on

    Richmens taxes will still drop, deficits will still raise, violent interventions will still fail, precious oil will still get wasted, McDonalds will still decrease your lifetime, countries will increase their hate against the WMD rednecks, the American dream still remains a dream, freedom will still be an illusion, terrorists and dictators will still be sponsored by American oil exploiters, democracy will still be restricted to 1 day every 4 years after which you have to shut your trap, and so on, and so on.....

    Who will win? The redneck or the wuss? Be sure to watch it all day long!

  21. Re:Race to mars... on China Plans 5-day Manned Space Mission · · Score: 1

    China is almost 40 years behind the U.S. so it may be a while

    At least Chinese know what work, food and peace is.

  22. Re:Freenet on P2P Not Dead, Just Hiding · · Score: 1

    It was designed for freedom of speech in countries like China.

    Too bad they can get prosecuted if they use it..

  23. Re:Yeah, well... on Changing Use of Internet? · · Score: 1

    You can't use Kazaa to buy a microwave, though

    Indeed.. that idea is already patented.

  24. Re:Can somebody explain ... on Optical Control of Light on a Silicon Chip · · Score: 1

    Yes some guys managed to use 40 beams for an intercontinental Internet connection; each user got 10 Gbit/s up&down access, rather than 10Gbit/s shared.

    It will be even more interesting when it can be applied to circuitry! You were damn right mr. Moore..

  25. Re:Where on Waterproof MP3 Player Uses Bone Conduction · · Score: 1

    Implanted in his clothing of course! Oh, wait..